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** Used in "Protect and Survive", "Prehistoric Television", and "Weather Warnings", in all cases to amp up some NightmareFuel.
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** Used in "Protect and Survive", "Prehistoric Television", and "Weather Warnings", in all cases to amp up some NightmareFuel.Warnings".
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* {{MST}}: Very much so.
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screen! Oh, everybody in ''Clue'' IS a compulsive liar, so I shouldn't be surprised.
* {{MST}}:Very much so.The "Archive Riffs" subseries is this, but there are also other examples of riffing on media throughout the regular series as well.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Ben, particularly when he's getting nostalgic.
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* VanityPlate: The focus of episode 23, titled "Scary Logos (and Other Nostalgic Video Terrors)", is the various production company logos that are well-known to have [[NightmareFuel scared certain viewers who saw them]]. Ben starts out talking about the logos before moving on to the related subject of the FBI warnings often seen at the beginning of videocassettes.
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* VanityPlate: The focus subject of episode a couple of episodes:
** Episode 23,titled "Scary Logos (and Other Nostalgic Video Terrors)", is the various production company partially focused on logos that are well-known to have [[NightmareFuel scared notorious for scaring certain viewers who saw them]]. Ben starts out talking viewers; the remainder of the episode talks about the logos before moving on to the related subject of the FBI warnings often seen at the beginning of videocassettes.videocassettes.
** Episode 203, "Cheesy Logos", focuses instead on, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheesy logos]], with logo montages centered around a particular "cheesy" aspect (trumpet jingles, synthesized jingles, logos that try to look "majestic", logos that blatantly rip off other logos, flat-out dull logos). Ben also discussed [[LogoJoke logo variants]] and how they used to be unusual and creative, but that nowadays every production has its own logo variants, making them lose their surprise value and become more unimaginative. The "cheesy logos" subject was a compromise between certain fans having requested a "Scary Logos" sequel for years and Ben just not being the type to be scared over logos (on top of his considering "Scary Logos" to be one of his worst episodes), though he did throw the fans a bone with a montage of logos that "used to kinda sorta creep me out as a kid" along with recent finds.
** Episode 23,
** Episode 203, "Cheesy Logos", focuses instead on, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheesy logos]], with logo montages centered around a particular "cheesy" aspect (trumpet jingles, synthesized jingles, logos that try to look "majestic", logos that blatantly rip off other logos, flat-out dull logos). Ben also discussed [[LogoJoke logo variants]] and how they used to be unusual and creative, but that nowadays every production has its own logo variants, making them lose their surprise value and become more unimaginative. The "cheesy logos" subject was a compromise between certain fans having requested a "Scary Logos" sequel for years and Ben just not being the type to be scared over logos (on top of his considering "Scary Logos" to be one of his worst episodes), though he did throw the fans a bone with a montage of logos that "used to kinda sorta creep me out as a kid" along with recent finds.
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-->'''Inspector Pride''': Pry''': My name name... is Inspector Pride.Pry.
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''Oddity Archive'' is a webseries regarding past technology and the odder, often [[NightmareFuel scarier]] but relatively obscure parts of film, television and music, occasionally making riffs on certain things. All the episodes are fascinating watches.
In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom.
In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom.
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''Oddity Archive'' [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OddityArchive is a webseries webseries]] regarding past technology and the odder, often [[NightmareFuel scarier]] but relatively obscure parts of film, television and music, occasionally making riffs on certain things. All the episodes are fascinating watches.
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In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July.(Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom.
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In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July.
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* CouchGag: The "production company" at the very end of each episode.
** Additionally, the picture on Ben's box is almost always something loosely connected to the topic of the episode. Often to the point where the image on the box isn't directly acknowledged in the episode itself. [[labelnote:Example]] The image during the Max Headroom Incident Revisited episode is an aged version of the ''real'' Max Headroom, from a series of UK commercials promoting the digital TV switchover.[[/labelnote]]
** Additionally, the picture on Ben's box is almost always something loosely connected to the topic of the episode. Often to the point where the image on the box isn't directly acknowledged in the episode itself. [[labelnote:Example]] The image during the Max Headroom Incident Revisited episode is an aged version of the ''real'' Max Headroom, from a series of UK commercials promoting the digital TV switchover.[[/labelnote]]
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** The"production company" at opening credits are often modified to fit the very end theme of each episode.
** Additionally,the episode, such as video effects that mimic the format discussed in the episode or a different theme song related to the subject.
** Ben's first line in regular episodes is almost always "And welcome to the ''Oddity Archive'', the show that...", the rest changing from episode to episode. "Ben's Junk" episodes almost always begin with "And welcome to a [adjective] episode of Ben's Junk".
** The picture on Ben's box is almost always something loosely connected to the topic of the episode. Often to the point where the image on the box isn't directly acknowledged in the episode itself. [[labelnote:Example]] The image during the Max Headroom Incident Revisited episode is an aged version of the ''real'' Max Headroom, from a series of UK commercials promoting the digital TV switchover.[[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]]
** The end card has a credit to Ben Minnotte and a copyright holder for the original content which change every episode.
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** Additionally,
** Ben's first line in regular episodes is almost always "And welcome to the ''Oddity Archive'', the show that...", the rest changing from episode to episode. "Ben's Junk" episodes almost always begin with "And welcome to a [adjective] episode of Ben's Junk".
** The picture on Ben's box is almost always something loosely connected to the topic of the episode. Often to the point where the image on the box isn't directly acknowledged in the episode itself. [[labelnote:Example]] The image during the Max Headroom Incident Revisited episode is an aged version of the ''real'' Max Headroom, from a series of UK commercials promoting the digital TV switchover.
** The end card has a credit to Ben Minnotte and a copyright holder for the original content which change every episode.
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* SigningOffCatchPhrase: The regular episodes always end with "That's it for today's Archive. Join us next week when we...", the rest changing from episode to episode. Many of the non-regular episodes, especially the "Ben's Junk" episodes, end with "I'll talk to you again soon."
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** "Special Bulletins (or, We Interrupt This Archive)" has a segment on "weather break-ins" which includes footage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake interrupting an MLB World Series broadcast and KNBH coming back from the 1994 Northridge Earthquake that threw it and all the Los Angeles TV stations off the air.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Episode 190, "Special Bulletins (or, We Interrupt This Archive)", is all about these. Many of the famous ones get covered: the Hindenburg disaster ("Oh, the humanity!"), the Pearl Harbor attacks, D-Day, the JFK assassination, 9/11, the Port Kaituma shootings which preceded the Jonestown mass suicide, the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt (featuring Frank Reynolds' infamous "all this information!" outburst), Princess Diana's death and Air Florida Flight 90.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Episode 190, "Special Bulletins (or, We Interrupt This Archive)", is all about these. Many of the famous ones get covered: the Hindenburg disaster ("Oh, the humanity!"), the Pearl Harbor attacks, D-Day, the JFK assassination, 9/11, the Port Kaituma shootings which preceded the Jonestown mass suicide, the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt (featuring Frank Reynolds' infamous "all this information!" outburst), Princess Diana's death and Air Florida Flight 90.
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Discussed in "Special Bulletins (or, We Interrupt This Archive)". The intro gets "interrupted" by a brief rant from Ben about how ''everything'' is "breaking news" these days, and what he introduces as his "whoop-de-freaking-doo montage" mostly features breaking news interruptions that Ben feels could've at least waited until the next commercial break.
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* EarWorm: Episode 184 presented the "Top 10 Earworms (to Date)", as voted by the viewers among the various tunes that showed up on Oddity Archive across the years. Ben opens the episode by stating it "may very well be the all-time, single most diabolical episode of the Oddity Archive" before listing the top 10:
** Honorable mentions (read: Ben's favorites which only got 1-2 votes) were "I Buy at Alexander's", "Go See Cal" (jingles from ads featured in Episode 63, "Local TV Vol. 4: Local Commercials"), "Candy Pants" by Rev. Lionel Davis, "Non-Sectarian" by Roland Steele and "The Shrink" by the Penny Magic Show (all from Episode 165, "Local TV Vol. 6: More Public Access"). The preceding introduction featured "Celebration" (from Episode 39, "QUBE Interactive TV") and the Creator/MagneticVideo jingle (from Episode 23, "Scary Logos (and Other Nostalgic Terrors)").
** #10 was "When You Think (You're Feelin') You're Ready", a jingle from a Crazy Eddie Electronics ad featured in Episode 63, "Local TV Vol. 4: Local Commercials".
** #9 was "Jiminy" by the Jimmy Fith Band, a smooth jazz instrumental which first appeared in Episode 23, "Scary Logos (and Other Nostalgic Terrors)".
** #8 was "Day by Day", a track from the obscure "8-track rip-off" ''Themes from'' Godspell by an uncredited organ combo first played on Episode 55, "Return of the Son of Record Rip-Offs (or: Record Rip-Offs Vol. 3)", which Ben often used on subsequent episodes as "montage music".
** #7 was Santo Gold's eponymous song from his film ''Blood Circus'', covered in Episode 41, "Infomercials".
** #6 was "We're Stayin' in Tonight", from RCA's "Introduction to CED" video featured in Episode 92, "Capacitance Electronic Discs (or, CED's)".
** #5 was "V.D. is for Everybody", the jingle from the PSA of the same name featured in Episode 45, "Public Service Announcements (or, PSA's)", a still of which is still part of the opening sequence to this day.
** #4 was a Muzak cover of Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" which briefly played in Episode 78, "The Death of Analog Television".
** #3 was "Who Made the Egg Salad Sandwiches?" from an ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' "Five Neat Guys" faux-infomercial, which appeared as a non-sequitur joke in Episodes 2 and 159, "Emergency Broadcast Salute Vol. 1/2".
** #2 was "Cyclotron" by Keith Mansfield, used in a [=Tele1st=] startup countdown shown in Episode 11, "Pay TV (but Not Cable or Satellite)".
** #1 was, of course, Ben's own "Pavanned" theme song. "I don't know if y'all are just kissing my ass or it's just the sheer tonnage of times I've played it, but [it] won by a freaking landslide", getting 70 mentions and likes, way ahead of "Cyclotron" which only got 15.
** Honorable mentions (read: Ben's favorites which only got 1-2 votes) were "I Buy at Alexander's", "Go See Cal" (jingles from ads featured in Episode 63, "Local TV Vol. 4: Local Commercials"), "Candy Pants" by Rev. Lionel Davis, "Non-Sectarian" by Roland Steele and "The Shrink" by the Penny Magic Show (all from Episode 165, "Local TV Vol. 6: More Public Access"). The preceding introduction featured "Celebration" (from Episode 39, "QUBE Interactive TV") and the Creator/MagneticVideo jingle (from Episode 23, "Scary Logos (and Other Nostalgic Terrors)").
** #10 was "When You Think (You're Feelin') You're Ready", a jingle from a Crazy Eddie Electronics ad featured in Episode 63, "Local TV Vol. 4: Local Commercials".
** #9 was "Jiminy" by the Jimmy Fith Band, a smooth jazz instrumental which first appeared in Episode 23, "Scary Logos (and Other Nostalgic Terrors)".
** #8 was "Day by Day", a track from the obscure "8-track rip-off" ''Themes from'' Godspell by an uncredited organ combo first played on Episode 55, "Return of the Son of Record Rip-Offs (or: Record Rip-Offs Vol. 3)", which Ben often used on subsequent episodes as "montage music".
** #7 was Santo Gold's eponymous song from his film ''Blood Circus'', covered in Episode 41, "Infomercials".
** #6 was "We're Stayin' in Tonight", from RCA's "Introduction to CED" video featured in Episode 92, "Capacitance Electronic Discs (or, CED's)".
** #5 was "V.D. is for Everybody", the jingle from the PSA of the same name featured in Episode 45, "Public Service Announcements (or, PSA's)", a still of which is still part of the opening sequence to this day.
** #4 was a Muzak cover of Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" which briefly played in Episode 78, "The Death of Analog Television".
** #3 was "Who Made the Egg Salad Sandwiches?" from an ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' "Five Neat Guys" faux-infomercial, which appeared as a non-sequitur joke in Episodes 2 and 159, "Emergency Broadcast Salute Vol. 1/2".
** #2 was "Cyclotron" by Keith Mansfield, used in a [=Tele1st=] startup countdown shown in Episode 11, "Pay TV (but Not Cable or Satellite)".
** #1 was, of course, Ben's own "Pavanned" theme song. "I don't know if y'all are just kissing my ass or it's just the sheer tonnage of times I've played it, but [it] won by a freaking landslide", getting 70 mentions and likes, way ahead of "Cyclotron" which only got 15.
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** Ben seems to regard the musical sting for the Protect and Survive shorts as this, leading him to later dub other uncanny-synth jingles trying to sound futuristic as having "Protect and Survive Syndrome".
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* RealSongThemeTune:
** Episodes 1-6 use Music/{{XTC}}'s '"Senses Working Overtime". Perhaps to avoid [=YouTube=]'s notoriously broken copyright system, all episodes afterwards have the tune replaced by Ben's original composition "Pavanned".
** For Episode 80, the opening theme is changed to a recording of "Sidewalks of New York" taken from a Stereo Test Record (which is the subject of that day's episode)
** Occasionally the theme song is replaced to match the topic of the episode, such as "Analog Man" by Joe Walsh for "Format Wars", or "The Danse" by Kemper Crabb for "Hell's Bells".
** Episodes 1-6 use Music/{{XTC}}'s '"Senses Working Overtime". Perhaps to avoid [=YouTube=]'s notoriously broken copyright system, all episodes afterwards have the tune replaced by Ben's original composition "Pavanned".
** For Episode 80, the opening theme is changed to a recording of "Sidewalks of New York" taken from a Stereo Test Record (which is the subject of that day's episode)
** Occasionally the theme song is replaced to match the topic of the episode, such as "Analog Man" by Joe Walsh for "Format Wars", or "The Danse" by Kemper Crabb for "Hell's Bells".
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* EmergencyBroadcast: Episode 51, "Weather Warnings".
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* AbusiveParents / HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Ben (as a character, at least) is implied to have these.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: "Employee Training Videos Vol. 2 (Loss Prevention)" ends with a remix of the music from one of the videos using some of the dialogue from one of the shoplifters.
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** He would semi-confirm this during "Ben's Music "Career" Vol. 1 (The Outsider Years, Pt. 1)", saying that he was 15 circa 1998 (and also lampshading that he gave away his age), making his birth year likely 1985.
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** He would semi-confirm this during "Ben's Music "Career" Vol. 1 (The Outsider Years, Pt. 1)", saying that he was 15 circa 1998 throughout 2001 (and also lampshading that he gave away his age), making his birth year likely 1985.1986.
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* {{Corpsing}}: In "Mystery 8mm Films/The Ballad of Ben & 8mm", Ben cleans and plays two mystery reels of 8mm film that he never looked at before. The first one seems to be a nature film of some kind.[[note]][[spoiler:Hilariously, THAT film turned out to be porn, too!]][[/note]] The second one [[spoiler:turns out to be porn.]] Ben promptly loses his shit upon discovering this.
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* WhamLine: The Ben's Music "Career" series is pretty topsy-turvy on its own with its details about how Ben's music career came to be, but Volume 3's showing of why he scrapped his ''West of Elderbush Gulch'' album is especially noteworthy.
-->"I had a classmate who got a record deal.....with Creator/EpicRecords, for his band.....and that band was called '''Music/TheFray'''."
-->"I had a classmate who got a record deal.....with Creator/EpicRecords, for his band.....and that band was called '''Music/TheFray'''."
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->[[TheStinger That's it for today's Archive. Join us next time when we ponder why TV Tropes]] seems almost intentionally designed to [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife forcibly makes the user open so many tabs.]]ruin your life]].
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''Oddity Archive'' is a webseries regarding past technology and the odder, often [[NightmareFuel scarier]] but relatively obscure parts of film, television and music, occasionally making riffs on certain things. All the episodes are fascinating watches and it really SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.
In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom. As of January 2018 the show is still well and alive and as of January 21st is now at it's 141st episode.
In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom. As of January 2018 the show is still well and alive and as of January 21st is now at it's 141st episode.
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''Oddity Archive'' is a webseries regarding past technology and the odder, often [[NightmareFuel scarier]] but relatively obscure parts of film, television and music, occasionally making riffs on certain things. All the episodes are fascinating watches and it really SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.
watches.
In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in thefandom. As of January 2018 the show is still well and alive and as of January 21st is now at it's 141st episode.
fandom.
In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the
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** It's a gag among commentators commenters to mention that ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' episodes are almost always in the related videos -- which Ben addresses in episode 89.5, saying he doesn't get why and didn't even know what ''Code Lyoko'' was until people started mentioning it.
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* BrownNote: Janet Greene's "Fascist Threat" is used twice as a method of [[ItMakesSenseInContext forcing people to join the Republican Party,]] because it is just that bad. [[note]]This mainly more of a joke than anything -- Ben seems to think Janet Greene's work is relatively decent for conservative folk music (not that this is presented as any great honour).[[/note]]
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* BrownNote: BrownNote:
** Janet Greene's "Fascist Threat" is used twice as a method of [[ItMakesSenseInContext forcing people to join the Republican Party,]] because it is just that bad. [[note]]This mainly more of a joke than anything -- Ben seems to think Janet Greene's work is relatively decent for conservative folk music (not that this is presented as any great honour).[[/note]]
** Janet Greene's "Fascist Threat" is used twice as a method of [[ItMakesSenseInContext forcing people to join the Republican Party,]] because it is just that bad. [[note]]This mainly more of a joke than anything -- Ben seems to think Janet Greene's work is relatively decent for conservative folk music (not that this is presented as any great honour).[[/note]]
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* CallBack: Max Headroom pops up in "Format Wars" when Ben describes a damaged, skipping CED like watching ''Max Headroom'' even when you didn't want to.
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* CallBack: CallBack:
** Max Headroom pops up in "Format Wars" when Ben describes a damaged, skipping CED like watching ''Max Headroom'' even when you didn't want to.
** Max Headroom pops up in "Format Wars" when Ben describes a damaged, skipping CED like watching ''Max Headroom'' even when you didn't want to.
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* CausticCritic: Ben. The caustic persona would later be toned down quickly, because the pain from the aforementioned car accident affected him too much to continue that attitude.
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* CausticCritic: CausticCritic:
** Ben. The caustic persona would later be toned down quickly, because the pain from the aforementioned car accident affected him too much to continue that attitude.
** Ben. The caustic persona would later be toned down quickly, because the pain from the aforementioned car accident affected him too much to continue that attitude.
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* ContentWarnings: Ben notes in "American [=EXXXtacy=] (and Other C-Band Nastiness)" that guys with girlfriends shouldn't watch it.
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* ContentWarnings: ContentWarnings:
** Ben notes in "American [=EXXXtacy=] (and Other C-Band Nastiness)" that guys with girlfriends shouldn't watch it.
** Ben notes in "American [=EXXXtacy=] (and Other C-Band Nastiness)" that guys with girlfriends shouldn't watch it.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer[[invoked]]: A claim from ''Hell's Bells'' is put to the test in, well, "Hell's Bells". Ben decides to see if vibrations from a speaker playing loud rock music can really hard-boil an egg, by having a speaker play the entirety of Music/{{ACDC}}'s ''Black Ice''--of which he notes is [[LoudnessWar the loudest album in his collection]]--next to one. To put it bluntly, it doesn't.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer[[invoked]]: CowboyBebopAtHisComputer[[invoked]]:
** A claim from ''Hell's Bells'' is put to the test in, well, "Hell's Bells". Ben decides to see if vibrations from a speaker playing loud rock music can really hard-boil an egg, by having a speaker play the entirety of Music/{{ACDC}}'s ''Black Ice''--of which he notes is [[LoudnessWar the loudest album in his collection]]--next to one. To put it bluntly, it doesn't.
** A claim from ''Hell's Bells'' is put to the test in, well, "Hell's Bells". Ben decides to see if vibrations from a speaker playing loud rock music can really hard-boil an egg, by having a speaker play the entirety of Music/{{ACDC}}'s ''Black Ice''--of which he notes is [[LoudnessWar the loudest album in his collection]]--next to one. To put it bluntly, it doesn't.
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* HypocriticalHumor: In "Halloween Special 2013 (Part 1 - Italian Dance Party)", Ben condemns the "Italian Dance Party" for being disrespectful toward Italian music. Deciding he needed to bring "ethnic authenticity" [[note]]Ben is of partial Italian heritage[[/note]] to the show, he then begins a rendition of "Arrivederci Roma"... before fumbling on the words and crapping out.
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* HypocriticalHumor: HypocriticalHumor:
** In "Halloween Special 2013 (Part 1 - Italian Dance Party)", Ben condemns the "Italian Dance Party" for being disrespectful toward Italian music. Deciding he needed to bring "ethnic authenticity" [[note]]Ben is of partial Italian heritage[[/note]] to the show, he then begins a rendition of "Arrivederci Roma"... before fumbling on the words and crapping out.
** In "Halloween Special 2013 (Part 1 - Italian Dance Party)", Ben condemns the "Italian Dance Party" for being disrespectful toward Italian music. Deciding he needed to bring "ethnic authenticity" [[note]]Ben is of partial Italian heritage[[/note]] to the show, he then begins a rendition of "Arrivederci Roma"... before fumbling on the words and crapping out.
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* LyricalDissonance: Ben's original song in "Industrial Musicals (or, The Archive Sells Out!)" is a fairly upbeat song about how Ben would prostitute himself out to corporate sponsors in order to get out of his poor financial situation.
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* LyricalDissonance: LyricalDissonance:
** Ben's original song in "Industrial Musicals (or, The Archive Sells Out!)" is a fairly upbeat song about how Ben would prostitute himself out to corporate sponsors in order to get out of his poor financial situation.
** Ben's original song in "Industrial Musicals (or, The Archive Sells Out!)" is a fairly upbeat song about how Ben would prostitute himself out to corporate sponsors in order to get out of his poor financial situation.
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* MotorMouth: The voiceover on the ''Cat Sitter'' FBI warning bumper.
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* MotorMouth: MotorMouth:
** The voiceover on the ''Cat Sitter'' FBI warning bumper.
** The voiceover on the ''Cat Sitter'' FBI warning bumper.
** In one episode, Ben mentions that if the voiceover on an Emergency Alert System broadcast were just as scared as the audience would be of the alert itself, maybe he would care more about it. Cue an EAS alert where the voiceover speaks like this as a side effect of it being scared.
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* NoodleIncident: In "Number Stations (And Other Radio Oddities)", we're not told exactly what Ben did at the previous year's Oktoberfest, other than that it involved wooden clogs.
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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
** In "Number Stations (And Other Radio Oddities)", we're not told exactly what Ben did at the previous year's Oktoberfest, other than that it involved wooden clogs.
** In "Number Stations (And Other Radio Oddities)", we're not told exactly what Ben did at the previous year's Oktoberfest, other than that it involved wooden clogs.
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* PunnyName: "Interstitials" features the [[ItMakesSenseInContext (fake)]] book "Don't Mime If I Do", written by [[NightmareFuel "R. Wirst Nitemayer"]][[note]]"Our worst nightmare".[[/note]], and published by "Munnee, Hungree & Bastards Inc." [[note]]"money hungry [&] bastards[[/note]].
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* PunnyName: PunnyName:
** "Interstitials" features the [[ItMakesSenseInContext (fake)]] book "Don't Mime If I Do", written by [[NightmareFuel "R. Wirst Nitemayer"]][[note]]"Our worst nightmare".[[/note]], and published by "Munnee, Hungree & Bastards Inc." [[note]]"money hungry [&]bastards[[/note]].bastards"[[/note]].
** "Interstitials" features the [[ItMakesSenseInContext (fake)]] book "Don't Mime If I Do", written by [[NightmareFuel "R. Wirst Nitemayer"]][[note]]"Our worst nightmare".[[/note]], and published by "Munnee, Hungree & Bastards Inc." [[note]]"money hungry [&]
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* RealSongThemeTune: Episodes 1-6 use Music/{{XTC}}'s '"Senses Working Overtime". Perhaps to avoid [=YouTube=]'s notoriously broken copyright system, all episodes afterwards have the tune replaced by Ben's original composition "Pavanned".
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* RealSongThemeTune: RealSongThemeTune:
** Episodes 1-6 use Music/{{XTC}}'s '"Senses Working Overtime". Perhaps to avoid [=YouTube=]'s notoriously broken copyright system, all episodes afterwards have the tune replaced by Ben's original composition "Pavanned".
** Episodes 1-6 use Music/{{XTC}}'s '"Senses Working Overtime". Perhaps to avoid [=YouTube=]'s notoriously broken copyright system, all episodes afterwards have the tune replaced by Ben's original composition "Pavanned".
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* RunningGag: The picture on the cardboard box varies between episode.
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* RunningGag: RunningGag:
** The picture on the cardboard box varies betweenepisode.episodes.
** The picture on the cardboard box varies between
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* TakeThat: In "Valentine's Day Special (Dating Services)", Ben taped a paper reading "HAPPY NOW, BLIP???" onto the cardboard box. This is credited in the next episode (the third Local TV Special) to having led to the series' suspension from Blip.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** In "Valentine's Day Special (Dating Services)", Ben taped a paper reading "HAPPY NOW, BLIP???" onto the cardboard box. This is credited in the next episode (the third Local TV Special) to having led to the series' suspension from Blip.
** In "Valentine's Day Special (Dating Services)", Ben taped a paper reading "HAPPY NOW, BLIP???" onto the cardboard box. This is credited in the next episode (the third Local TV Special) to having led to the series' suspension from Blip.
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* TakeThatAudience: After issuing the aforementioned ContentWarning in "American [=EXXXtacy=]", Ben says that people watching Oddity Archive probably don't have girlfriends.
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* TakeThatAudience: TakeThatAudience:
** After issuing the aforementioned ContentWarning in "American [=EXXXtacy=]", Ben says that people watching Oddity Archive probably don't have girlfriends.
** After issuing the aforementioned ContentWarning in "American [=EXXXtacy=]", Ben says that people watching Oddity Archive probably don't have girlfriends.
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* TakeThatUs: Some of the opening "show that [x]" lines are this.
--> '''Ben:''' Welcome to the Oddity Archive, the show that metaphorically embodies circling the drain.
--> '''Ben:''' Welcome to the Oddity Archive, the show that metaphorically embodies circling the drain.
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* TakeThatUs: TakeThatUs:
** Some of the opening "show that [x]" lines are this.
--> ---> '''Ben:''' Welcome to the Oddity Archive, the show that metaphorically embodies circling the drain.
** Some of the opening "show that [x]" lines are this.
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* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: "Teknikel Diffikultees" revolved around this.
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* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties:
** "Teknikel Diffikultees" revolved around this.
** "Teknikel Diffikultees" revolved around this.
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In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom. As of January 2018 the show is still well and alive and as of January 21st is now at it's 141st episode.
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In June 2015, the fandom entered into a collective panic following the season three finale, wherein Ben claimed the higher-ups in the geek community got ''Archive'' cancelled, as it was "obsolete". Ben soon took to social media to assure fans that the show was not, in fact, ending, and that regular episodes would resume sometime mid-July. (Guess you could say that Ben made the fanbase [[ArchivePanic Archive panic]]! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ehh? Ehhh?]]) Sure enough, normal "broadcasting" resumed on July 16, 2015... only for the Season Four premiere to be pulled a few days later, after it was flagged for allegedly promoting illegal activities. YouTube Website/YouTube restored the video on July 20, 2015, rendering all well in the fandom. As of January 2018 the show is still well and alive and as of January 21st is now at it's 141st episode.
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* YouWannaGetSued: When The Walt Disney Corporation or Chicago's WGN channel are mentioned, Ben often bleeps them out to avoid invoking them directly, and their names are usually blanked out when they appear on screen. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that, as Ben notes in an episode of "Ask the Archive", Disney and WGN can be a bit litigious when it comes to copyright, and referencing either entity directly could result in the offending episode being pulled from YouTube.
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* YouWannaGetSued: When The Walt Disney Corporation or Chicago's WGN channel are mentioned, Ben often bleeps them out to avoid invoking them directly, and their names are usually blanked out when they appear on screen. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that, as Ben notes in an episode of "Ask the Archive", Disney and WGN can be a bit litigious when it comes to copyright, and referencing either entity directly could result in the offending episode being pulled from YouTube.Website/YouTube.
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* SurrealHumor: Full of this, especially during the episode about the ''MaxHeadroom'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion incident]].
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* SurrealHumor: Full of this, especially during the episode about the ''MaxHeadroom'' ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion incident]].
